Sustainability topics, like climate adaptation, CO2 reduction, circular enterprise and the energy transition, are all high on society’s agenda. And ours too. As a family business, we are eager to make a valuable contribution. We do this by making carefully considered choices in our business operations, based on our principle of doing business sustainably, responsibly and with respect for people and the environment.
To offer our society today, but also our future generations, a pleasant world to live in, major improvements are still needed in many different areas. The UN has translated these social themes into 17 concrete goals for 2030; the Sustainable Development Goals. TruSteel Group contributes to this and has included this in its sustainability strategy.
Our sustainability topics focus primarily on six of the seventeen SDGs, i.e. those on which our activities have the greatest impact. These six are affordable and clean energy, decent work and economic growth, industry, innovation and infrastructure, sustainable cities and communities, responsible consumption and production and climate action, with the CO2 footprint as a starting point. We also aim to score high on the other Goals.
Realising our sustainability strategy also helps us to conquer our mission to create healthy living environments. Our approach includes generating renewable energy by using solar panels (from Trusteel Energy) on our own roofs, encouraging reuse and circular construction and a commitment to electric driving. In doing this, we aim to promote the reuse of buildings, products, materials and raw materials and to further reduce our CO2 emissions. We already succeeded in lowering our CO2 emissions by over 44% between 2015 and 2023.